Lensahn (1901)

Later names:
Nohab
Nohab

Builder:
Howaldtswerke
Kiel, Germany
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1901
Launched:
June 10, 1901
Type:
Yacht
Completed:
N/A
   
Fate:
Sank in 1934 while at anchor in Tampa, Florida. Raised and towed 15 nautical miles
west of Egmont Key, Florida and scuttled.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
146' 3"
Engines:
Triple expansion
Beam:
25' 8"
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
12' 8" (depth)
Shafts:
2
Gross Tons:
427
HP:
86 (NHP)
Crew:
N/A
Speed:
N/A


Notes:
Designed by J. Koch and built for Friedrich August, Herzog von Oldenburg (Duke of Oldenburg).
The ship may have been used as a hospital ship during the Great War.
Following the war was sold to a Swedish business man and renamed Nohab.
Sold to New York owners Charles A. Ogren and D. R. Haimes in the early 1920's who intended
to use her for booze cruises between Miami and the Bahamas.

Sold to A. W. Ryerson, Nassau, Bahamas around 1925 and moved to Miami, Florida.
Sold at auction in June of 1926.
Sept. 18, 1926 was sunk at Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida during a hurricane, the captain,
J. H. Ehrman and five or six crewmen were lost with the ship.
Raised and laid up.
Sold around 1928, towed to Tampa for refit (which never happened).
Sank at anchor in Tampa 1934, raised and towed into the Gulf of Mexico and scuttled.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 21, 2013